Alberto Sordi
Alberto Sordi (15 June 1920 – 25 February 2003) was an Italian actor. He was also a film director and the dubbing voice of Oliver Hardy in the Italian version of the Laurel & Hardy films.
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Jag är Ingrid
A personal portrait of mythical and controversial actress Ingrid Bergman based on her many home movies and diaries.
Incontri proibiti
Armando Andreoli, a well-known engineer of almost 80 years, is approached by Federica, an assistant nurse who then invites him to his hotel room. In the morning, Federica's boyfriend arrives in the room, suspecting a relationship that has never existed.
Romanzo di un giovane povero
Two neighbors, young Vincenzo and old Mr. Bartoloni, are utterly unhappy. On the one hand Vincenzo must lead a miserable and frustrating life as he cannot find any regular job, despite his Arts degree. On the other hand, Mr. Bartoloni is fed up with his despotic wife: the woman who used to be a beautiful artist is now a fat and shabby drunkard.
L'avaro
Misery money-lender Arpagone is looking to arrange three weddings simultaneously - to cut down on costs. One for himself and the others for his two children. Of course he doesn't approve of the choices his son and daughter have made and conspires to arrange more well to do spouses against their will.
Io so che tu sai che io so
The investigations of a private eye shake up the almost broken marriage of a middle aged couple.
Il marchese del Grillo
In 18th-century Rome, impish aristocrat Onofrio del Grillo amuses himself by playing pranks on all sorts of people — his reactionary family and fellow nobles, the poors, the French occupiers trying to modernize society, and even the Pope himself.
L'ingorgo
A tremendous congestion hit the Roma highway ring. The biggest traffic jam ever seen endures for more than 36 hours. People blocked in their cars react at the beginning normally. But the more the time advance the more we are witness of personal dramas, hysteric reactions and more. All the episodes are linked like one only plot.
Le témoin
A sexually adventurous young woman approaches Antonio, an Italian art-restorer working at a cathedral in France. He resists getting involved with her but later he finds out she was raped and murdered in a derelict house.
Dove vai in vacanza?
In three vignettes, two exes, a tour guide and a married couple struggle to overcome a series of misadventures during their vacations.
Un borghese piccolo piccolo
l figlio di un impiegato ministeriale romano è ucciso per caso durante una rapina. Il brav'uomo prepara ed esegue una lenta, bieca, allucinata vendetta.
I nuovi mostri
A comedy film composed of 14 episodes. It is a sequel to I mostri, made in 1963. 1. The Finch of Val Padouan (Ettore Scola) - 2. Tantum ergo (Dino Risi) - 3. Hitchhiking (Mario Monicelli) - 4. Kidnapping of a Beloved Person (Ettore Scola) - 5. First Aid (Mario Monicelli) - 6. Big Boy to His Little Mother (Dino Risi) - 7.
Polvere di stelle
The lives of two local professional dancers change suddenly as American soldiers stop in their town hoping to be entertained in accordance with the Broadway style. Effectively, they perform up to their expectations. However, as the army men have to march northward, their moment of glory finishes heartlessly.
Roma
A virtually plotless, gaudy, impressionistic portrait of Rome through the eyes of one of its most famous citizens.
Lo scopone scientifico
Ogni anno, Peppinolo stracciarolo e la moglie Antonia attendono l'arrivo a Roma dell'eccentrica miliardaria statunitense che li sfida periodicamente a giocare a scopone scientifico.
Detenuto in attesa di giudizio
Giuseppe Di Noi, an Italian surveyor living in Switzerland, gets arrested at the border while going back to Italy with his family for a vacation. But can someone tell the man WHY?
Bello onesto emigrato Australia sposerebbe compaesana illibata
The film is about an old fashioned Italian with moral values of the 1930/40's , who has to find a wife in the modern, woman's liberated society of Australia of the 1960/70's.
Nell'anno del Signore
È il primo di una trilogia di film di Magni dedicati alla Roma papalina del periodo risorgimentale.
Il Prof. Dott. Guido Tersilli primario della Clinica Villa Celeste convenzionata con le mutue
Story of an ambitious young doctor through unethical means intend to make a quick career. Now is primary in a luxury clinic where administers the sick with the same cynicism of his young years.
Riusciranno i nostri eroi a ritrovare l'amico misteriosamente scomparso in Africa?
A rich businessman is fed up with work, family, society, and goes with a friend to Africa, in search of another friend who had vanished there in mysterious circumstances. They will find him alright - as a tribal chief, surrounded with lots of topless, shapely wives. They are going to return to civilisation, but will their friend come with them?
Il medico della mutua
Comedy about the flawed Italian healthcare system of the time and a doctor's expeirence with it.
Un italiano in America
Giuseppe, an Italian gas station attendant, is invited to the United States to reconcile with his father, who he believed had been dead for years.
Le streghe
Five short stories loosely dealing with the roles of women in society. A superstar actress travels to a mountain resort, only to evoke jealousy from women and lust from men. A woman offers to take an injured man to the hospital. A widowed father and his son seek for a new wife/mother. A man seeks revenge for a woman's honor.
Scusi, lei è favorevole o contrario?
A successful fifty-year-old entrepreneur, Tullio Conforti, opposed to divorce for religious reasons, is in fact separated from his wife and leads a frenetic life divided between numerous lovers.
Fumo di Londra
Dante Fontana is an antique dealer from Perugia infatuated with the culture of the British upper classes. His wife and relatives mock him and snub him, seeing him as a silly daydreamer doing no serious work. Unfussed, Dante plans a vacation to London to learn more about the culture he so admires.
Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines or How I Flew from London to Paris in 25 hours 11 minutes
Star studded comedy about a early 20th century air race from Britain to France.
I complessi
I complessi is a 1965 commedia all'italiana film compesed by three episodes.
Il maestro di Vigevano
Antonio Mombelli è un maestro elementare: sposato con Ada, moglie frustrata che lo non manca di tradirlo, abbandona la carriera scolastica per aiutare la consorte ed il cognato ad aprire un calzaturificio.
Il diavolo
An Italian fur merchant who is going to Sweden for the first time to attend the annual fur auctions in Stockholm.
Il boom
Sweet-sour comedy on Italy's 1950's rage to get rich as fast as possible! The businessman wants to satisfy his wife's craving for luxury and a "respectable life" so he becomes heavily indebted. In desperation he agrees to sell a precious part of his body for a large sum of money. But just before the crucial operation he panics...
Mafioso
When a good-natured factory supervisor living in Milan with his Northern wife returns to his native Sicily, a decades' old oath forces him to fulfill a nightmarish obligation.
Il commissario
Popular Italian comic Alberto Sordi does an excellent job of creating a bumbling yet effective police inspector by the unlikely name of Dante Lombardozzi, in this entertaining comedy-murder mystery by director Luigi Comencini.
Una vita difficile
Silvio, partigiano ed idealista, nell'Italia della Resistenza, prima, e del boom economico, poi, deve fare i conti con l'amoralità ed il materialismo della realtà che lo circonda.
Il giudizio universale
In Naples, a voice from the skies announces one morning that the final judgment will be at 6 p.m. on that day. What follows is a series of vignettes depicting various people's reactions (or lack thereof) to the announcement.
Tutti a casa
Everybody Go Home (Italian: Tutti a casa) is a 1960 Italian film directed by Luigi Comencini. It features an international cast including the U.S. actors Martin Balsam, Alex Nicol and the Franco-Italian Serge Reggiani. Nino Manfredi was rejected for the starring role because Alberto Sordi wanted it.
Il vigile
An unemployed man gets a job as traffic policeman but the traffic in the big city creates innumerous problems for the poor guy.
Nella città l'inferno
A young girl comes to prison and experiences the entire prison subculture. The inmates she befriends vary from big tough dangerous dames to smaller submissive ladies who are totally lost in prison life.
La grande guerra
Italy, 1916. Oreste Jacovacci and Giovanni Busacca are called, as all the Italian youths, to serve the army in the WWI. They both try in every way to avoid serving the army.
Il vedovo
Un industriale romano organizza il "delitto perfetto" per uccidere la ricca moglie milanese ed assicurarsene la cospicua eredità, al fine di riparare ai propri disastri finanziari.
Il moralista
The newly appointed head of a censorship board uses his uncompromising stance against everything "immoral" – from nudity in movies to nightclubs – to hide a rather unseemly double life.
I magliari
Mario is in Hannover to work as a miner but after loosing his job he decides to go back to Italy. When Totonno steals his passport to avoid the police and later on he offers him a new job as "magliaro" (cloth seller), Mario changes his mind and decides to follow Totonno to Hamburg.
Racconti d'estate
It is Summer. It is the right time for love, especially in a most romantic place as Golfo del Tigullio.
Ladro lui, ladra lei
Cencio, a roman pilferer, periodically is in prison. He meets Cesira that soon become his partner in crime. With Cesira's help Cencio try the big hit to a jewelery. But the lucky break is over.
Un eroe dei nostri tempi
Alberto Menichetti lives with an aunt and an old housekeeper, Clotilde; he has a job in a firm and his boss is Mrs. De Ritis, a widow whose husband was killed during a wild boar hunt. She likes him but Alberto likes Marcella; she is under age and he is awaiting her birthday to declare his love.
Il medico e lo stregone
Francesco, a young doctor, is appointed doctor to the imaginary village of Pianetta in the province of Avellino, but is immediately in competition with Don Antonio, a so-called "healer".
A Farewell to Arms
A Farewell to Arms is a 1957 American drama film directed by Charles Vidor. The screenplay by Ben Hecht, based in part on a 1930 play by Laurence Stallings, was the second feature film adaptation of Ernest Hemingway's 1929 semi-autobiographical novel of the same name. It was the last film produced by David O. Selznick.
Mio figlio Nerone
On seaside holiday, Nero, Poppea, Seneca and their friends and family prepare a great show where Nero will star. When his mother Agrippina arrives with her German praetorians and decides Nero has to conquer Britain, she's asking for trouble. Many attempts of murder and poisoning will happen on the eve of his great show.
Piccola posta
Polish countess Lady Eva is the authoritative signature of the correspondence of an Italian women's magazine; behind the fascinating name hides a Roman girl whose advice will create a series of tangled and comic situations.
Lo scapolo
Paolo Anselmi is a happy single man. He lives in an apartment with a friend but must leave when his friend marries. He then goes to a boarding house where he flirts with a girl but leaves her.
Il segno di Venere
Due cugine, l'una napoletana e avvenente, l'altra milanese e dall'aspetto anonimo, vivono a Roma a casa degli zii: intorno alla coppia di ragazze, ronzano numerosi uomini.
Bravissimo
The master Impallato takes care of the boys in a suburban after-school. Here he discovers a pupil with an extraordinary baritone voice.
Un giorno in pretura
A day at an Italian trial court, where a magistrate judges a full array of peculiar petty crimes and characters.
Un americano a Roma
Nando Mericoni, baldo giovanotto di Trastevere e ballerino di tip-tap, ha il pallino dell'America e aspira soltanto a un viaggio negli Stati Uniti. Quello che poteva riuscire uno sketch di saporosa comicità è stato diluito in un film lungo di grana piuttosto grossolana. Segna, comunque, una svolta – e il decollo decisivo – nella carriera di Sordi.
L'arte di arrangiarsi
The Art of Getting Along (Italian: L'arte di arrangiarsi) is a 1954 comedy film directed by Luigi Zampa and starring Alberto Sordi
I vitelloni
A character study of five young men at crucial turning points in their lives in a small town in Italy.
Lo sceicco bianco
In Italy, small-town newlyweds Wanda and Ivan Cavalli embark on their honeymoon in the big city of Rome. Ivan dutifully wants to keep appointments with family and church, but Wanda is only interested in meeting her favorite photo-strip star known as "The White Sheik".
Prima comunione
The daughter of Signor Carloni is about to take her first communion. A problem arises when the dressmaker spends too much time working on the girl's communion frock.
Le miserie del Signor Travet
The ordinary life of the prudent employee Mr Travet accelerates as he and her wife meet his new chief.
Scipione l'africano
A story of the Second Punic Wars, beginning with Scipio's futile pleas to the Roman Senate to build an army to battle Hannibal, that climaxes with the battle of Zama.